Yeah, I think they were in love as much as a lot of young people are or were. What is love anyway? It's up to the individuals involved to define it. Cousins, though, no way. Especially where sexual relations is implied and infered.

Homosexuality is considered a no-no mostly by religious people because scriptures frown on it. Sexual intercourse between males and females was intended for procreation. Marriage is man's invention. The purpose of sex between consenting adults of either sex is what the people engaging in it want it to be.

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